David Marin-Guzman

The Allan government has backed greater protections for workers against spying bosses as technology and work from home test the boundaries of employee privacy.

The Finance Sector Union has written to the banks and other white-collar employers demanding they review rejected work from home requests in response to a landmark ruling.

Group training centres are fighting a union push for a multi-employer agreement that they say could threaten the viability of the sector.

Employment lawsuits in the federal courts have almost doubled in the past three years, new data reveals, as the government considers all options to stop claims flooding the system.

Two drivers accused of kissing and masturbating during trips have won their jobs back in what could represent a broader problem for Uber under Labor’s new laws.

The Finance Sector Union says it will use the ruling to push employers across the sector to reconsider their refusals of WFH requests.

The Fair Work Commission ruling is a world-first and a major test of Labor’s new unfair deactivation laws for gig workers.

An employer has been forced to pay full redundancy entitlements in part because it required a manager to work in the office an extra day a week.

BHP, in a failed bid to stay same job, same pay orders, has admitted the total cost of the decision on its Queensland mines will be about $30 million.

Bosses have warned that being monitored may be the price employees have to pay if they want to work remotely.